Kent, and the Canterbury tales.--Shakespeare's London.--Coffee-houses and clubs of London.--The Jews in England.--Pictures of English highroads.--Autumn on the English lakes
Topic: England -- Description and travel
Kent, and the Canterbury tales.--Shakespear's London--Coffee-houses and clubs of London--The Jews in England--Pictures of English highroads--Autumn on the English lakes
Topic: England -- Description and travel
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07/13
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CBC
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Jordan Hermant on the movie Pump Up the Volume as proto-file sharing and blogging. Jo Guldi on the 18th century Open Roads Movement as proto-net neutrality. Michelle Parise on Prince song titles as proto-texts. Colin Newell and Kristin Haring on CB radio/HAM radio as proto-social media. Richard Sennett on class behavior in London coffee houses as proto-status updates. Anaïs Saint-Jude on 17th C information overload as proto-present day information overload.
Topics: CBC, Spark, CBC Spark, Nora Young
Weekly Comedy, as It Is Dayly Acted at Most Coffee-Houses in London is a historical journal published in United States focused on Language & Literature. This collection contains microfilm published in 1699.
Topic: Language & Literature
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Topic: Taverns (Inns)
Timbs J Club Life Of London With Anecdotes Of The Clubs, Coffee Houses & Taverns Of The Metropolis During The 17th, 18th & 19th Centuries Vol 1 1866
Topics: Timbs J Club Life Of London With Anecdotes Of The Clubs, Coffee Houses & Taverns Of The...
Topic: London (England) -- Commerce
Anonymous. By D. Morier Evans. Cf. Halkett & Laing
Topics: Coffeehouses, Stock exchanges
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Topics: Literary landmarks -- England London, London (England) -- Clubs, London (England) -- Hotels,...
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Topics: Clubs, Hotels, traverns, etc, Bars (Drinking establishments), Literary landmarks
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Mar 2, 2021
03/21
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Timbs, John
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Topics: England--London:Manners and customs, Literary landmarks, MinistryOfCulture
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Topics: Clubs, Taverns (Inns), Literary landmarks
32 pages of advertising are in back
Topic: Literary landmarks
Introductory chapter.--An arrival in Bohemia.--Old and new Chelsea.--A Chelsea evening.--In the studios.--The country in Bohemia.--Old and new Soho.--Coffee-houses about Soho.--The bookshops of Bohemia.--Old and new Fleet street.--Some newspapers and magazines.--Ways and means.--Talking, drinking and smoking.--Old and new Hampstead.--A wedding in Bohemia.--A novelist.--A painter.--A gipsy poet.--Conclusion
Topic: London (England) -- Social life and customs
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Nov 16, 2018
11/18
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Borer, Mary Cathcart, 1906-1994
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Topics: Finance -- England -- London -- History, Commerce, Finance, London (England) -- Commerce --...
Sometimes attributed to John Chamberlayne, however his birth date of 1666 makes this attribution questionable. Cf. Arents
Topics: Coffee, Tea, Cacao, Tobacco, Sambucus, Juniperus
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Jul 29, 2018
07/18
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John Timbs
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Book from Project Gutenberg: Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Topics: Clubs -- England -- London, London (England) -- Social life and customs, Literary landmarks --...
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41146
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Jul 29, 2018
07/18
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John Timbs
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Book from Project Gutenberg: Club Life of London, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Topics: Clubs -- England -- London, DA, London (England) -- Social life and customs, Literary landmarks --...
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41516
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36 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)
Topics: Tea -- Early works to 1800, Chocolate, Beer, Coffee, Chocolate, Tea
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Whist
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=ow11EdPLRwkC&oe=UTF-8
Topic: London (England) -- Hotels, taverns, etc
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Oct 15, 2009
10/09
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Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967
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Introductory chapter.--An arrival in Bohemia.--Old and new Chelsea.--A Chelsea evening.--In the studios.--The country in Bohemia.--Old and new Soho.--Coffee-houses about Soho.--The bookshops of Bohemia.--Old and new Fleet street.--Some newspapers and magazines.--Ways and means.--Talking, drinking and smoking.--Old and new Hampstead.--A wedding in Bohemia.--A novelist.--A painter.--A gipsy poet.--Conclusion
Queen's University Library
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Aug 30, 2012
08/12
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St. Leger, John, Sir; Sacheverell, Henry, 1674-1724. Perils of false brethren; Collins, Anthony, 1676-1729
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Appendix (p. 42-8) comprises: State tracts, vol. 1, p. 539-40--Reflections on a late pamphlet entitled Priestcraft in perfection
Topics: Sacheverell, Henry, 1674-1724, Divine right of kings
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Aug 25, 2015
08/15
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Feltham, John. n 87942431
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03/16
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Akerman, John Yonge, 1806-1873
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"Many of the tokens comprised in the following list were issued by the keepers of coffee-houses and taverns"--Pref
Topics: Tokens, Hotels
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Feb 10, 2012
02/12
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Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles); McManus, Blanche, b. 1869, binding designer
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Original navy blue publisher's cloth; pictorial cover stamped in gold and color; binding designed by Blanche McManus
Topics: Publishers' bindings, Hotels
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Topics: Tokens, Hotels
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=YAEfAAAAMAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Jul 26, 2018
07/18
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Great Britain
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93 pages ; (8vo)
Topic: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
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Jan 3, 2020
01/20
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Emmerson, Charles
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xiv, 528 pages : 24 cm
Topics: History, Modern -- 20th century, History, Modern
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Dec 3, 2020
12/20
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Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939
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245 pages ; 20 cm
Topic: Fiction in German Austrian writers, 1900-1945 - English texts
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Nov 17, 2011
11/11
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Fox, Edward, 1829?-1862
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Publisher's advertisement: p. 1-24 at end
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Pearce, Michael, 1933-
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Topics: Great Britain. Foreign Office -- Officials and employees -- Fiction, Great Britain. Foreign Office,...
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Flanders, Judith, author
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Topics: Budapest (Hungary) -- Guidebooks, Hungary -- Guidebooks
Steven Johnson finds that throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused. He tracks the history of ideas with the birth of coffee houses, and their role in shaping our world. Watch Steven Johnson, international bestselling author, in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! Loved this snippet? Watch the full edit here: https://youtu.be/ReHhAd6vEfE Subscribe to our...
Topics: The RSA, Great Britain, London, Youtube, where do ideas come from, british enlighenment, american...
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Apr 20, 2008
04/08
by
Francis Boyer Relton
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Topics: fire, office, insurance, insured, povey, sun, loss, persons, company, houses, fire office, sun...
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=sPAdAAAAMAAJ&oe=UTF-8
CONTENTS. - A model village of homes. - An English half-holiday. - Stage-coaching in England. - Coffee-houses in Great-Britain. - The Sunday-school centenary, London. - A fete of the French republic. - A visit to the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago. - The Great Lakes and the Mediterranean. - Spanish rule, and its end, in Cuba. - A college vacation at the front. - How fine papers are manufactured. - Entertainments for the people. - The flags of all nations
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04/19
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American Dreamers
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The first recorded mention of a coffee house is set in the early 1500's in Damascus. It immediately became a place of concern for the rulers because the coffee houses were a natural community center where people shared stories, news of their families and political ideas. Later as coffee houses began to spring up in Europe they also served as a place where people conducted business over a cup of java. Lloyd's of London started in a coffee shop and early stock market exchanges began in coffee...
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02/21
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screamin_jazzy
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I haven't drawn a comic in years, to break the HUGE lethargy I started drawing this. It's rather booring, mundane and purely desighned as an exercise in getting back to drawing. It's is entirely drawn in biro, wilst sitting in variouse coffee shops accross london, I can keep you updated as to the types of coffee and locations of coffee houses frequented for lolz XD there is plot to this little comic, as to wheather I get that far is anouther question entirely. We follow the activities of Alexi...
Topics: comic, other, webcomic, smackjeeves
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Topics: Radio Program, Streets in Westminster, Visitor attractions in London, Chartered companies, Soho,...
CONTENTS. - A model village of homes. - An English half-holiday. - Stage- coaching in England. - Coffee-houses in Great-Britain. - The Sunday-school centenary, London. - A fete of the French republic. - A visit to the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago. - The Great Lakes and the Mediterranean. - Spanish rule, and its end, in Cuba. - A college vacation at the front. - How fine papers are manufactured. - Entertainments for the people. - The flags of all nations
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Topics: Radio Program, Coffee beverages, Legal terms, Coffee houses of the United Kingdom, Transport in...
This is the third chapter in Macaulay's great History of England from the Accession of James II.In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state of the nation in 1685.He discusses the population, the revenue, the military system, the roads, the inns, the coaches, the great cities and, of course London, its coffee houses and first experiments in street lighting. An interesting diversion from Macaulays's usual obsession with politics but worry not, he still manages to crowbar some political intriguing...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, history, macaulay, victorian, literature, whigs
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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Sep 26, 2019
09/19
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BBC Radio 4
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We're often told that science changed our world. In this series, Lisa Jardine explores how the world changed science, pushing it in new directions, creating new disciplines and pioneering new approaches to scientific understanding. Lisa Jardine describes how the desire to build an empire promoted a keen scientific interest in plants, in this second of her Seven Ages of Science, exploring the history of modern science in Britain. We needed to understand what plants existed in the world and how...
